Shannon Gilligan

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Shannon Gilligan began working with Choose Your Own Adventure in 1981, when she was hired to project manage the development of a Choose Your Own Adventure: Escape into a video game for the first Atari console. She continued her involvement with Choose by writing several bestsellers in the series, including Cup of Death, Ghost Island, and The Lake Monster Mystery. In the early 1990s, Gilligan was evangelized by Apple to develop software for the Mac. Her mystery game "Who Killed Sam Rupert?" subsequently became the first game to include Quicktime, the earliest commercially distributed video playback software for personal computers. Gilligan continued to develop software for the Mac and the PC for several years, and produced and directed Comic Creator, voted Best Software of the Year by People Magazine in 1995. In 2006, she co-founded Chooseco LLC with R. A. Montgomery, as a purpose-built publishing house for the re-launch of the Choose Your Own Adventure series. Gilligan has overseen the sales of over 15 million copies of CYOA in the past decade, while expanding licensing of the Chooseco catalog into film, board games, and now interactive audiobooks. In 2012, Gilligan conceived and wrote the script for the prototype of Choose Your Own Adventure Choose 'Toons, interactive cartoons based on Ray's bestselling title for younger readers, Your Very Own Robot. Since the series re-launch, Gilligan has written several more CYOA bestsellers including Princess Island and Unicorn Princess.

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Unicorn Princess
Representative edition published 2018
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Gus vs. the robot king
Representative edition published 2014
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Choose Your Own Adventure - The Mystery of Ura Senke
Representative edition published 2012
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The Lake Monster Mystery
Representative edition published 2009
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Struggle down under
Representative edition published 2009
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Ghost Island
Representative edition published 2008
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Choose Your Own Adventure - The Case of the Silk King
Representative edition published 2007
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Das Gespenst ohne Kopf
Representative edition published 2005
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Choose Your Own Adventure - Showdown
Representative edition published 1992
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Choose Your Own Adventure - The Terrorist Trap
Representative edition published 1992
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THERE'S A BODY IN THE BRONTOSAURUS ROOM! (Our Secret Gang, No 6)
Representative edition published 1992
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CASE OF THE MISSING FORMULA, THE (Our Secret Gang, No 3)
Representative edition published 1991
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HAUNTED SWAMP (Our Secret Gang, No 2)
Representative edition published 1991
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À la recherche de Champie
Representative edition published 1989
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Choose Your Own Adventure - Terror in Australia
Representative edition published 1988
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Haunted harbor
Representative edition published 1986
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The Fairy Kidnap
Representative edition published 1985
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Mona is missing
Representative edition published 1984
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The three wishes
Representative edition published 1984
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Search for Champ
Representative edition published 1983
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Christmas, Starring You
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Three Wishes
Representative edition published 2024
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Another Reunion in Detroit
Representative edition published 2021
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Reunion in Detroit
Representative edition published 2021
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